Greens plan to get handguns off suburban streets

The Australian Greens have announced an action plan to make our streets and neighbourhoods safer with a ban on semi-automatic handguns.

The plan has been costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office at $351.5 million over the next four years and includes a 12-month amnesty, a buy-back scheme and a national public education campaign in support of the buy-back.

“In NSW, the number of registered handguns increased from 33,858 in 2005 to 42,127 in late 2011. That is a 24 per cent increase in just 6 years,” Ms Faehrmann said.

“Last year, police records obtained by the Greens confirm that handguns have been used in almost 90 per cent of drive by shootings in Sydney and in almost every case, the handgun was a semi-automatic pistol.

“Here in NSW, both the Coalition and Labor talk about cracking down on drive-by shootings, but they won’t start with the obvious, and that’s banning semi-automatic handguns.”

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